Tuesday, November 26, 2013

You can just hear low information conservative voters
blaming “ObamaCare” for closing hospitals and killing 5,000 jobs all over the country, instead of blaming the Republicans governors who were well aware of the
possibility when they turned down Medicaid expansion.

Heck, the hospitals
said it would happen. In Wisconsin, Scott
Walker will actually spend up to $73 million to subsidize hospitals for
uncompensated losses. That's taxpayer money. His zombie followers probably don’t even know their footing the bill because of Walker.

At least five public hospitals closed this year and many
more are scaling back services, mostly in states where Medicaid wasn’t
expanded. Hospitals have dismissed at least 5,000 employees across the
country since June, mostly in states that haven’t expanded the joint
state-federal Medicaid health program for the poor as anticipated under the
U.S. health overhaul known as Obamacare … medical care would be balanced by
more low-income patients being covered by Medicaid. Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Health and Human Services
Department, said governors who chose not to expand Medicaid are to blame for
the hospital closures. The administration “strongly encourages” states to
expand Medicaid, which would “dramatically reduce the amount of unpaid bills
that hospitals are left with,” Peters said in an e-mail.

Remember the ACA would pay 100 percent of Medicaid expansion for
three years, phasing down to 90 percent after that. Yet some governors are still using the “the
price tag is too high” in the dystopian future they foresee a GOP congress and president repeal the ACA.

Georgia’s Republican Governor, Nathan Deal, has said the state can’t afford to expand
Medicaid. Even though the federal government says it will initially cover the
costs, the price tag will be too high in the future, he said.

WaPo: Mitch McConnell was pressed on the Medicaid expansion —
which is responsible for
85 percent of new signups in Kentucky — and on the benefits the law will extend
to people. He didn’t have a very good answer. The Courier-Journal reported
it this way:

McConnell took umbrage at the argument that the numbers in
Kentucky add up to a successful program.“Well look, if I went out here on the street today [and
said], ‘You guys want free health care?’ I expect you’d have a lot of signups,”
he said. “People signing up for something that is free” is the only thing about
Obamacare in Kentucky that could be considered successful.

Yes, people will make sure they live in poverty to get "free health care."

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